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The Discharge of Fukushima’s Radioactive Water could be a Precedent for Similar Actions via Dianuke

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023 By Pinar Demircan Underlying the disregard for objections from global civil society and transforming the ocean into a nuclear waste dump lies a bigger goal inspired by capitalist practices that arise from its crisis: to achieve another threshold by … Continue reading

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Fukushima fish with 180 times legal limit of radioactive cesium fuels water release fears via The Guardian

A fish living near drainage outlets at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in May contained levels of radioactive cesium that are 180 times Japan’s safety limit. The black rockfish caught on 18 May was found by plant operator Tokyo Electric Power … Continue reading

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< What to know about Japan's plan to dump waste water into the ocean via NPR

July 9, 20238:00 AM ET Transcript AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: The International Atomic Energy Agency on Tuesday approved Japan’s plan to release over 1 million tons of treated nuclear wastewater from a nuclear plant. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station was … Continue reading

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[Interview] Japanese lawmaker proposes novel way of storing irradiated Fukushima water via Hankyoreh

Posted on : Jun.21,2023 17:09 KST Modified on : Jun.21,2023 17:09 KST Calling the sea the world’s “shared asset,” Tomoko Abe, 74, a member of Japan’s House of Representatives, has proposed a new alternative for the impending discharge of contaminated … Continue reading

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Content of radioactive element in fish at Fukushima’s Nuclear Power Plant 180 times of safe limit via CGT

The radioactive elements in the marine fish caught in the harbor of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan far exceed safety levels for human consumption, according to a report issued by the plant’s operator Tokyo Electric Power Company … Continue reading

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INTERVIEWJapan’s data on Fukushima wastewater should not be taken at face value: expert

via The Korea Times Korea encouraged to work with Pacific Island countries against Japan’s planned water releaseBy Lee Hyo-jin Japan’s planned dumping of radioactive wastewater from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean is a shared … Continue reading

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Japan says G7 welcomes release of Fukushima wastewater, Germany objects via Hankyoreh

Following a meeting of Group of Seven ministers on climate, energy and environment in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, on Sunday Japan’s Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry began speaking while the environmental ministers of Italy and Germany remained seated. In his … Continue reading

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Fukushima plant head: Too early to predict decommissioning via The Mainichi

[…] “Going forward, we have to face unconceivably difficult work such as retrieving the melted debris” from inside the reactors, said Ono, who heads the plant and is president of Fukushima Daiichi Decontamination & Decommissioning Engineering Co. Earlier this year, … Continue reading

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Scientific opposition to Japan’s planned release of over 1.3 million tons of radioactively contaminated water from the Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster into the Pacific Ocean via NAML.org

The National Association of Marine Laboratories (NAML), an organization of more than100 member laboratories, opposes Japan’s plans to begin releasing over 1.3 million tonsof radioactively contaminated water from the Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant intothe Pacific Ocean commencing in 2023. This … Continue reading

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Don’t dump on us: Pacific Islanders, marine scientists, urge Japan not to dump Fukushima radioactive water into the ocean via Beyond Nuclear International

By Linda Pentz Gunter The nuclear power industry has a long history of disproportionately impacting people of color, Indigenous communities and those living in the Global South. As Japan prepares to dump more than 1 million tonnes of radioactive water … Continue reading

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